Trump Just Doesn’t Get It on Drugs
March 6, 2025
Trump blames other countries like Canada, Mexico, and China for the drug problem in the U.S. and thinks the solution is to raise taxes on Americans by raising tariffs. The terrible truth, as recently stated by Jacob Hornberger, is simply this: “American consumers want drugs and are willing to pay for them. To meet that enormous demand, other people sell them the drugs they want to buy.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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